Word: station
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...voters of Oregon have spoken, and I like the sound of their voices." Also listening closely were the uncommitted party leaders, such as Washington Governor Dan Evans, who chatted with Nixon last week and then said of other G.O.P. chiefs: "When the train leaves the station, everyone wants to be aboard...
...state commerce commissioner and the only woman member of the President's riots commission, defeated her closest opponent in a field of twelve candidates to win the Democratic nomination for the Senate seat held by Republican Thruston Morton, who is retiring. Miss Peden, who owns a Kentucky radio station, set off the morning after her victory to campaign against Jefferson County Judge Marlow Cook, the Republican nominee. Despite Kentucky's G.O.P. leanings, Miss Peden is given an even chance of beating Cook, a Roman Catholic...
Chats, Charters & Chow. Most expensive single item for any campaigner is television time. One of Oregon's twelve stations, KGW, reported that in one-minute campaign spots alone, Nixon bought 112, Reagan 104, Kennedy 58, McCarthy 46 and Rocky 17. The station charges $400 per minute for a political spot in prime time (7:30-11 p.m.), $300 in Class A time (6-7:30 p.m.) and $110 in daytime...
...people nowadays seems to be astrology. Just about every U.S. newspaper and women's magazine runs a horoscope column, so eventually the zodiac was bound to cloud over the TV screen. WPIX-TV became the first to capitalize on the astral preoccupation when it began inserting horoscopes into station breaks last January. That feature became so popular that WPIX hired Harper's Bazaar Horoscoper Xavora Pové to turn out a weekly 30-minute series. Miss Pove, an astrology devotee since her days at Sandusky High in Ohio (where she was known as Rosemary Schultz), devised Guess...
Next month NET will broadcast a similar nationwide show, Black Journal. In discussing such plans at a recent NET affiliates meeting in Manhattan, the program manager of one station took the floor to complain: "You are going too fast for our primarily white middle-class audience. After all, TV is still largely an escapist medium. They don't want to be reminded of all that stuff...